Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 74:4
Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they (c) set up their ensigns [for] signs.
(c) They have destroyed your true religion, and spread their banners in sign of defiance.
Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they (c) set up their ensigns [for] signs.
(c) They have destroyed your true religion, and spread their banners in sign of defiance.
Verse Psalms 74:4. _THINE ENEMIES ROAR_] Thy people, who were formerly a distinct and separate people, and who would not even touch a Gentile, are now obliged to mingle with the most profane. Their bo...
THINE ENEMIES ROAR - This refers to the shout and tumult of war. They raised up the war-cry even in the very place where the congregations had been assembled; where God had been worshipped. The word r...
Psalms 74 The Enemy in the Sanctuary _ 1. The Prayer on account of the enemy (Psalms 74:1)_ 2. The work of the enemy (Psalms 74:4) 3. Intercession for intervention ...
LXXIV. The date may be fixed with certainty and that within narrow limits. The Jews are suffering extreme distress, but apparently by no fault of their own, for there is no confession of sin. The pers...
ENEMIES. adversaries. THY CONGREGATIONS. Thine assembly. THEIR. Compare "our", Psalms 74:9. ENSIGNS FOR SIGNS. signs as signs [for us]. SIGNS. Same word as "ensigns" and "standard" in Numbers 2....
Render, Thine adversaries roared in the midst of thy meeting place. _Mô"çd_may mean either the place or the time at which God meets His people, as of old He met them at "the tent of meeting" (Exodus 2...
A graphic picture of the desecration of the Temple by the heathen enemies of Israel....
THINE ENEMIES ROAR, &C.— i.e. "They triumph in those places where thy people formerly met to worship thee." See Psalms 74:7. _For signs,_ means, _"As trophies,_ in token of their conquest over us....
PSALMS 74 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Ruthless Injuries to the Sanctuary and Oppression in the Land by an Enemy, call forth Expostulation with God for his quiescence. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 74:1-3 a, In...
Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary. -The enemy has destroyed God's sanctuary and synagogues, and there are no tokens of God...
74:4 adversaries (d-2) _ Tzar_ , Psalms 8:2 . signs. (e-18) See Exodus 4:17 ; Exodus 10:2 ....
THEIR ENSIGNS] either military standards or religious emblems: see 1Ma 1:47, 1Ma 1:54-55, 1Ma 1:59....
Psalms 74, 79 seem to reflect the same historical situation, and are usually ascribed to the same author. Both were written in a time of national calamity, when the Temple was profaned (Psalms 74), an...
Psalms 73:89 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ KEEP YOUR PROMISE! PSALMS 74 Jesus said, "One stone will not stay on another. They will all become broken". (Ma
THINE ENEMIES... — As the text stands, render, _Thine enemies have roared in the midst of thine assembly,_ but many MSS. have the plural as in Psalms 74:8, where see Note for the meaning of the word....
שָׁאֲג֣וּ צֹ֭רְרֶיךָ בְּ קֶ֣רֶב מֹועֲדֶ֑ךָ שָׂ֖מוּ...
Psalms 74:1 Two periods only correspond to the circumstances described in this psalm and its companion (Psalms 79:1)-namely, the Chaldean invasion and sack of Jerusalem, and the persecution under Anti...
THE SANCTUARY OF GOD PROFANED Psalms 74:1 This psalm probably dates from the time when the Chaldeans destroyed the Temple and the city of Jerusalem. Compare Psalms 74:8 with Jeremiah 3:13. The main e...
This is a great complaint, but it is a complaint of faith. Hardly a gleam of light is found throughout. The singer sits in the midst of national desolation and pours out his soul to God in passionate...
_Melted. Symmachus and Houbigant, "is strengthened." (Haydock) --- After the last fire the earth shall remain, though changed in quality. (Worthington) (2 Peter iii. 10.) --- God destroys and establis...
The pleading soul here takes up many strong and unanswerable arguments to plead with God. He first sets out with reminding Jehovah, that the anger God hath manifested is against his people. Now, saith...
4._Thy adversaries have roared in the midst of thy sanctuaries. _Here the people of God compare their enemies to lions, (Amos 3:8,) to point out the cruelty which they exercised even in the very sanct...
Psalms 74 complains of the hostile desolation of the sanctuary, when rebuilt in the land. God's enemies, as faith here calls them, roar in the congregations. Man's ensigns, not God's, are the signs of...
THINE ENEMIES ROAR IN THE MIDST OF THY CONGREGATIONS,.... Particular churches, gathered out of the world in Gospel order, and which meet together at particular times and places; in the midst of these,...
Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns [for] signs. Ver. 4. _Thine enemies roar_] When they give the onset, or after the victory; our roaring boys are so call...
_Thine enemies roar_ Make loud outcries; either out of rage and fury against the conquered and captivated Israelites, now in their power; or rather, in the way of triumph for their success and victory...
Thine enemies roar in the midst of Thy congregations, in the place where God revealed Himself in the assembled congregation in His Word; THEY SET UP THEIR ENSIGNS FOR SIGNS, heathen customs and ceremo...
PRAYER FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE CHURCH. Maschil, a didactic poem, of Asaph, a prophetic psalm, foretelling some of the afflictions which would befall the Church of God, in the Old Testament as wel...
1-11 This psalm appears to describe the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple by the Chaldeans. The deplorable case of the people of God, at the time, is spread before the Lord, and left with him....
ROAR, i.e. make loud outcries; either from their rage and fury against the conquered and captivated Israelites now in their power; or rather, in way of triumph for their success and victory. IN THE MI...
Psalms 74:4 enemies H6887 (H8802) roar H7580 (H8804) midst H7130 place H4150 up H7760 (H8804) banners...
CONTENTS: The deplorable condition of God's people spread before Him with petition for deliverance. CHARACTERS: God, Asaph. CONCLUSION: The desolations of God's house cannot but grieve the believer m...
Title. _Maschil of Asaph;_ that is, instruction, as Psalms 32. The EDDA is the title of the Icelandic poem, which also signifies instruction. This mournful ode is also alleged to have been written in...
_O God, why hast Thou cast us off for ever?_ why doth Thine anger smoke against the sheep of Thy pasture? THE WAIL AND PRAYER OF A TRUE PATRIOT I. The wail (Psalms 74:1). 1. Some communities of men...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 74:1. This psalm, a community lament, is a cry of anguish over the destruction of the temple. It recounts God’s mighty deeds in the past, especially the exodus. Past events...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 74:4 Considering the importance that God himself has placed on the temple, it is horrific that the Gentiles have destroyed (PROFANED) it....
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“A Maschil of Asaph,” i.e., an Instruction of Asaph, a Didactic Song by Asaph. See introduction to Psalms 1. “But _here_ we cannot have the least idea of the authorship...
EXPOSITION "THE misery of the Jews is here at its deepest". The psalmist describes Jerusalem as fallen into "perpetual ruins" (Psalms 74:3). The temple is violated (Psalms 74:3); its carved work is ru...
Psa 74:1-23 is one of those psalms where the psalmist again is speaking of the desolation that is come, and the apparent quietness of God in the face of the desolation. God didn't do anything to stop...
2 Chronicles 36:17; Daniel 6:27; Jeremiah 6:1; Lamentations 2:7;...
Roar — In a way of triumph. Midst, &c. — In the places where thy people used to assemble for thy worship. Set up — Monuments of their victory....